Capitol Briefing: December 16, 2007 - December 22, 2007

Barely a month into their newfound power, the House Democrats huddled together in the Kingsmill Resort in historic Williamsburg, Va., trying to chart their course for 2007. On the Friday night of that weekend they heard from the most preeminent Democrat in the land: former President Bill Clinton, who urged...

With just days left in the first session of the 110th Congress, Democratic leaders have designed a complicated game of legislative ping-pong in which they'll be passing bills back and forth between the House and Senate. Beginning this afternoon, the two chambers will try to wrap up a series of...